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Luxuriate in the charms of Tuscany as you travel first class through the jewel-toned landscapes of a region known for impeccable cuisine and a rich cultural heritage.
Immerse yourself in sensual pleasures on this exclusive journey through the wonders of Tuscany. With your private expert guide and driver, tour hidden historic sites, narrow streets lined with quaint cafes and boutique shops, Renaissance palaces and glorious landscapes of wheat fields and olive groves. From a private Florentine residence of a refined art collector, to a magnificent country Estate nestled among rolling hills, to an Italian townhouse located in the luxury shopping district of Rome, enjoy exclusive accommodations that will pamper your mind and body.
Shop in Via dei Tornabuoni, Florence's Fifth Avenue where you'll find everyone from Armani, Gucci, Versace, and Coveri. Sit down to an unforgettable meal at the Borgo San Jacopo Restaurant as an exclusive guest of Chef Beatrice Segoni. Enjoy a walking tour through Florence and visit the Ponte Vecchio, the famous Piazza della Signoria, and the Accademia Gallery where you'll view Michelangelo's David. Tour the Chianti region and visit Le Capezzine Estate for a tour of the ancient stone wine cellar. Elsewhere on your journey, why not consider a game of tennis or bocce, horseback riding, a round of golf, or simply spend the day at the spa being pampered; after taking in all of that history, you deserve it! La Dolce Vita exists, we can help you experience it.
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Discover the richness and creativity of Tuscan and Italian cuisine in the exclusive and inviting setting of the Hotel Lungarno overlooking the Arno. Resident chef Beatrice Segoni invites you to sample her delightful interpretations over lunch or dinner in the unforgettable Borgo San Jacopo Restaurant gourmet restaurant in the heart of the elegant Hotel. The Picteau Bar in the lounge of the luxury hotel is the perfect place to enjoy a coffee or a cocktail surrounded by original art by Picasso and Cocteau, while the beautiful terrace of the Sky Bar on top of the medieval Consorti tower, seems just one step away from heaven and the famous sights of Florence.
From posh designer brands like Armani, Gucci, Versace and Ferragamo to locally created hand-crafts, souvenirs, quality leathers and traditional clothing, the city of Florence is a never-ending dream for shopping enthusiasts. For those searching for ancient relics and traditional crafted antiques, Via Maggio is the street for you. The shops and merchants on this street boast numerous "Objects d'Art" and furnishings that are sure to create an atmosphere straight out of the 16th century. Via del Tornabuoni is considered Florence's 5th Avenue, featuring shops lined with best quality leather products, elegantly expensive shoes, and modernly stylish clothing boutiques. It is here where you'll find all the "big brand names" products as well as the posh, and potentially upcoming Italian styles. Besides the traditional shops, Florence also boast some of Italy's best open-air markets including the centralized Market of San Lorenzo, the New Market located under the 16th century Loggia del Porcellino, and the Flea Market at the Piazza Santa Croce.
The magnificent Hotel Lungarno (4.5*) is conveniently located in Florence and just a stone's throw away from the Ponte Vecchio. Imagine the most wonderful 59 rooms and 14 luxury suites, softened by beautiful light and surrounded by the reflections of the Arno River and the inspirational atmosphere of the medieval quarters of Florence. The great chef Beatrice Segoni invites you to sample her delightful interpretations over a lunch or dinner in the unforgettable Borgo San Jacopo Restaurant. The Picteau Bar in the lounge of this luxury hotel is the perfect place to enjoy a coffee or a cocktail among original art by Picasso and Cocteau.
Enjoy a half day walking tour with your private English-speaking guide. You will be met at your hotel and will proceed on foot to view the top sights in Florence. This personalized tour will give you local insight into the real history and hidden gems the city has to offer. You'll visit the Ponte Vecchio, the famous Piazza della Signoria, the elegant palaces and fashionable shops, the charming narrow medieval streets and the impressive Cathedral square with Brunelleschi's imposing dome will all be concentrated in a pleasant slowly paced tour. After exploring the city, you will proceed with your guide to the Accademia Gallery where you will have the chance to view Michelangelo's David. Completed in 1504 after four years' work, this stunning statue attracts millions of art lovers from around the globe each year. Your entrance tickets (included in the cost of the tour) are pre-booked so you can bypass the line.
Overnight guests at the Hotel Lungarno receive complimentary access to the Ferragamo museum in Florence - an artistic centerpoint in Florence. The museum's footwear collection documents the entire span of Salvatore Ferragamo's career, from his return to Italy in 1927 to 1960 the year he died. It highlights his technical and artistic skills which, through his color choices, the creativity of the designs and use of innovative materials made a fundamental contribution to the growth and establishment of "Made in Italy". Some of the items reveal Salvatore Ferragamo's relationships with artists of his day, such as the futurist painter, Lucio Venna who created some advertising sketches and the famous Ferragamo footwear label. Others document his continuous quest for the perfect fit and the invention of special constructions and materials, from the famous cork wedge patented in 1936 and immediately imitated all over the world, to the raffia or cellophane vamps, and candy-wrapper paper used during World War II. In addition, there are the shoes that are famous because they were made for Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn. This museum truly gives an insight into a century of history told by footwear. The items on display are periodically selected from the over 10,000 models in the museum's archives and featured in biennial exhibitions that present different themes through Ferragamo shoes. The Collection is also enriched by footwear production after the death of Salvatore Ferragamo, down to the present day. Every year, in fact, a number of models suitably representative of the season are entered in the Salvatore Ferragamo Archives which the museum draws on for its exhibitions.
Enjoy a full day private tour (6-7 hrs approx) which gives you the opportunity of spending an unforgettable day in enchanting Tuscany with an English speaking guide, vehicle and driver. Siena is a Gothic treasure, a maze of narrow streets sided by seven centuries old buildings, a city molded by the great sculptors of the Cathedral, still showing the colorful banners of the Contrades which twice a year compete against each other in a historical horse race known as the palio which takes place on the unforgettable Piazza del Campo. San Gimignano shows its proud towers in the middle of a fertile countryside crossed by vineyards, olive-trees and wheat fields where we'll spend the day among the true colors and flavors of Tuscany. Entrance fee, lunch and tasting not included.
Depart Florence today in the comfort of your own private vehicle with driver, and relax on the drive south (approx. 1hr 45 mins) to Avignonesi, where you'll get to visit an excellent wine producer, Le Capezzine Estate, situated at a few kilometres from Montepulciano, complete with its own villa, chapel and ancient stone wine cellar. The shared visit of the cellar will last approximately 1hr15mins and will take you around a real labyrinth made of wine barrels.
At the end of the wine tasting enjoy a typical 3 course Tuscan lunch accompanied by Avignonesi wines to match each course. Lunch will typically consist of Tuscan Appetizer, choice between pasta first course or meat main course with side dish, dessert, 3 Avignonesi wines, 1 Italian dessert wine (the choice between pasta and meat has to be confirmed in advance).
Fully sated, you'll depart for the beautiful medieval town of Cortona, that was already a very important village during the Etruscan period between the 8th and 7th Century BC. Enjoy a walking tour of town with an English speaking guide for approximately 2hrs, taking in the Romanic Church of St Christopher, the Town Hall Square with the Town Hall building as well as a stroll down the main street surrounded by beautiful medieval palaces from where you can admire beautiful panoramas.From Cortona, the final stop and todays destination will be Castiglion del Bosco, approximately a 2hrs30minute drive away.
There are two restaurants and a cozy bar at the Castiglion del Bosco property which showcase the talented chefs' seasonal and regional cuisine using the finest local ingredients, complemented by an extensive list of Castiglion del Bosco and regional wines. The traditional Osteria offers a casual ambience for an informal lunch or dinner, while the fine dining restaurant, Ristorante Campo Del Drago, presents an elegant setting for a sumptuous Tuscan dining experience.
As a protected nature preserve within the Val d'Orcia Parco Naturale, Castiglion Del Bosco (5*) boasts spectacular natural beauty. Nearly three quarters of the Estate is blanketed in forest, rolling hills, sweeping vineyards, centuries-old farmhouses and treasures of antiquity. Staying at Castiglion Del Bosco is a rare opportunity to enjoy Tuscany the way it is meant to be experienced; indulging in the fruits of the land in the form of fresh regional cuisine and delectable wines. Today its historic buildings have been transformed into 23 luxurious Suites that exude Tuscan class and culture. Castiglion del also play host to a number of stunningly located farmhouses – and nine of these have been restored to become sumptuous yet authentic villas offering unparalleled facilities and amenities. Inspired by the colors, textures and majesty of the Val d'Orcia, Il Borgo suites are a haven for relaxation and quiet contemplation.
Enjoy an hour and a half drive through the Tuscan countryside in the company of your chauffeur and private vehicle and arrive at Montepulciano, a beautiful medieval town built on a hilltop with an "S" shape and surrounded by very well preserved city walls. Discover its hidden narrow streets with many stores where you can also find beautiful hand made ceramics, and reach the main square "Piazza Grande" with the imposing Town Hall Palace. After about 3hrs of free time (during which you may also decide to enjoy a typical Tuscan lunch accompanied by the amazing Vino Nobile di Montepulciano red wine - not included), you'll depart to Pienza, about a 30 minute drive away.
Pienza is a very charming little town, which dates back to the 15th Century. Walk around the narrow streets and visit the typical "botteghe" (small stores) where you can find and taste all sorts of Pecorino cheese (with pepper, truffle, nuts, etc). Pienza also offers nice artisan stores which sell handmade leather items.Return to Castiglion del Bosco in the late afternoon with your private driver.
Castiglion del Bosco is well set up for activities on the estate. In and around the Borgo, one can take advantage of a state-of the-art fitness center, a soccer pitch, and tennis and bocce (Tuscan bowls) courts. The Estate also features miles of picturesque hiking and biking trails that hug spectacular ridges and meander past streams, waterfalls and hidden historic sites. Handsome Maremma horses, used by traditional Tuscan herdsmen, are also an option if a horseriding trek is of interest and treks are taken through a network of riding trails extending to the far-reaching corners of the property.
Immersed in the heart of the Val d'Orcia Artistic, Natural and Cultural Park, Castiglion del Bosco Golf Club centres on a spectacular eighteen-hole course designed by the legendary Tom Weiskopf. Golf enthusiasts will certainly be pleased with the course.
Spa lovers will be truly content with the offerings at the Care Suite Spa by Daniela Steiner which is a serene oasis that specializes in unique therapies based on organic ingredients from the Estate. Entrust yourself to the caring hands of the in-house team, who will pamper you with a complete range of exquisite beauty, spa and wellness treatments. Alternatively, relax by the heated infinity pool or enjoy a wine tasting on the propertry if you haven't already - Castiglion del Bosco is among the first five Brunello wine producers!
The extensive Gardens are a magnificent amenity in their own right, and encompass a radiant Tuscan palette for all seasons, including flower-decked terraces, rustic olive groves, manicured fruit orchards and sprawling Sangiovese vineyards. The splendid vegetable garden, designed by the Vatican's garden landscaper, is home to more than 180 varieties of vegetables, fruits and aromatic herbs grown exclusively for La Canonica's restaurants and Culinary Academy.
Depart Castiglion del Bosco today by private driven vehicle and after approximately 2hrs30 mins you'll arrive at Orvieto, an important Etruscan town built around the 6th Century BC, situated in the Southern part of Umbria region. Meet your private guide and enjoy an approximately 2hr walking tour through Orvieto's narrow streets. Admire the magnificent cathedral with the famous Rosone window situated right on top of the main entrance, and at the end of the tour, you'll have some free time for a nice lunch before heading to Rome.
Portrait Suites(4*) is a unique Italian-style townhouse located in one of the world's most famous neighbourhood in Rome, at the corner of via Condotti and just a few steps from Piazza di Spagna, in the heart of the luxurious shopping district. An exclusive, intimate hotel, it features a limited number of suites and studios. Reflecting the splendor and the luxury of Rome of the 50's, each suite is dedicated to a grand personality. Delicate shades of gray and pink compliment the elegance and sumptuousness of the 50's and create the illusion of a spectacular movie set paying homage to one of the founding fathers of Italian style: Salvatore Ferragamo. A magnificent terrace on the top floor offers the most spectacular views over Rome and the Trinità dei Monti.
Enjoy a private airport transfer in Rome (Fiumicino/Ciampino) with a private vehicle and driver. Please note drivers may or may not speak English as their sole responsibility is to transfer clients from one location to another. If you would like to have the presence of an English speaking Assistant or Guide for your transfer this can be pre-arranged upon request and would be subject to an additional supplement.
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Most people change their minds on things like that until they've experienced it themselves, but before that, if you've had no education in psychology and how severe depression and anxieties work, you can only form outside opinions on how you think it should go.
Not saying that those people who have never and will never come to the point of thinking suicidal thought can't have an opinion, I respect that.
But as said before, it's a mental illness, not an attribute chosen. Nobody chooses depression, maybe except if you wanna fit in, but that's called being an emo, and most of them don't mean it.
The movie seven poundsSPOILER! :is a relevant movie to this thread and for comiting suicide to regain honor or redemption.
There are people who are in so much pain and suffering so damn much that doctors have to make them drug addicts for them to get by and live. They are so high that they can't drive or work and some can't even be awake for more than a few hours a day. It's it allways the result of a medical condition it can be a result of trauma like a car accident or such. They are alive but really is that living? Is being a prisoner in your own body better than being dead? Is it better to be in such excruciating pain that you can't even gt out of bed a life you would WANT? It's not to me.
For people like that isint it humane to let them choose death rather than telling them "No you can wait." like a parent telling a 5yr old to wait to go to the bathroom? Maybe a bad or horrible analogy but it's pretty much the same IMO.
I have suffered depression and anxiety since I was little and have thought of suicide many many times but never went thru with it. I was at one point having a panick/anxiety attack every day for two months straight. The simplest way I can describe an anxiety attack is you know that feeling you get when you go on a roller coaster or really fast over a small hill in the car and you feel your stomach lift and it's like butterflies in your stomach? Ok take that feeling and don't let it stop for at least an hour. Now add to that thoughts that keep telling you that something is wrong with you and that you are going to die from what ever you can think of. You become hyper aware of your heat beat or breathing or any part of your body and start to think that it's not normal. For me it's usually my heart and I'm convinced that I'm having a heart attack (even tho I'm pretty much healthy) or a blood clot in my leg because I have a random twitch and a pain in my right leg. Then it gets harder to breathe and you get dizzy and you don't know why and it could be a punctured lung or heart attack or anything you see on web MD.
Not a fun way to live.
As for getting on medications. When you see some one for depression or anxiety they usually throw pills at you. The thing with pills is that there isint one kind that works for everyone. There are hundreds out there. They are trying to balance the chemicals in your brain or what ever but could be throwing them out of whack even more so. When you start an anti depression pill you have to try it for at least a month to possibly get the full benefit from it BUT it may not be the right one for you and before you even go the 30 days you may have attempted suicide. If you failed they will put you on a new one but who knows if the other one has left your system yet and the new one could be the right one but the old one is not making it seem so. I do think pills help some but it isint for everyone.
Telling some one who is suicidal to be strong is insulting and probably more of a push to go thru with it than anything because in their head if they were stronger than they wouldn't feel this way.
As long as it doesn't interfere with the lives of others as in you went thru with it and did it infront of a crowd or did it by jumping off a bridge into traffic and causing more deaths then it's your choice. Just try to involve other people as little as possible.
This is just what I know and feel from personal exp and reading.
my emotions are sort of like oil and water. the darker feelings sink to the bottom (water) and the lighter ones rise to the top (oil) but when the oil is washed away, i end up feeling like i'm going to drown myself in all the shame, hatred and disgust that i know i shouldn't have.
I know I'll probably get pounded for saying this, but this is my personal opinion and I'm not trying to cause a fight or persuade anyone into thinking my way. I speak from experience. I've been in severe depressions and considered suicide before. I don't believe that depression is a mental illness, I believe that it's a feeling. Just like I don't believe ADHD is an illness, I just believe that some kids are more hyper than others. I think that calling depression a mental illness is like making an excuse for a person to act depressed and possibly commit suicide. Again, I don't mean to offend anyone, it's just my opinion.
Good thing that the determination of mental illness are not made under the observation of believe or not believe.
Clock, you forget that this thread is titled "Thoughts on Suicide" which is what I posted, my thoughts about suicide. Excuse me for not having the same ideas about the subject as you. You also forget that our medical system is not perfect, absolute, or completely correct.
I think folks are focusing on individuals who do have a chemical imbalance or some other form of mental illness. I do agree that those who are clinically depressed are more suspect of committing suicide & that their emotional support groups are supposed to notice when things are getting to that point but oftentimes, its too late to save them. I don't think that it's selfish when this happens only sad.
Now what about the person who decides to commit suicide as a reaction to something that they've done or had done to them?


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Chris Webber, a rising NBA analyst for Turner Sports, is writing a memoir
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I profiled Chris Webber in last week's Sports Illustrated -- he's become one of the more interesting NBA voices as a studio and game analyst for NBA TV and TNT -- and during our conversation he told me that he's been working on a documentary about his life for the past six years. Webber said he plans to release both the documentary and an autobiography at some point next year and the working (but unlikely final) title is The Black Forrest Gump.
"Writing has been very therapeutic and it's really helped me," Webber said. "I'd suggest everyone in the world write their own book. It's probably one of the most liberating things I've ever done."
Given Webber, now 39, has lived a fascinating sports life, I naturally wondered how much he planned to reveal in his autobiography. Our back-and-forth is as follows:
Me: Will you hit on everything in your life, from your time at Michigan to the NBA to controversial and non-controversial topics? Will it all be in there?
Webber: Yeah. So let me ask you off-the-cuff and you can't offend me. What do you think should be in there?
SI.com: Honestly, I would expect everything from your time with the Fab Five to [booster] Ed Martin to how you felt about leaving Sacramento. Listen, you've lived a pretty fascinating life, from dating Tyra Banks to being a broadcaster. If it's a real, honest memoir, I would expect all that stuff to be in there.
Webber: That's cool. Thank you for that. From a guy perspective, you want to know. But that last thing you said is right. If you are going to write a book, you have to write the book. ... So I would have to say all of them should [be in the book]. They should, right? They should, yeah.
So we'll see. As a broadcaster, Webber continues to improve every year. He's opinionated and communicates ideas and concepts in a digestible manner for viewers. While he dreams of one day working in an NBA front office, he thinks he could be broadcasting for decades. Along with his usual studio gig every Tuesday night on NBA TV's Fan Night, he's been assigned more games this year with partner Dick Stockton. He's also filling in for Charles Barkley on Inside the NBA this Thursday.
"This is a job that's nowhere near as taxing on your time and body as playing," Webber said. "It gives me time to focus on charity and businesses. It's been a blessing. The only thing I could see taking me away from broadcasting are my charities or me going back to work with a team. I get to talk about basketball and stay close to the game. Even if you can't do things physically anymore, mentally I'm still in the game and I love that."
(SI.com examines some of the more notable sports media stories of the weekend)
1. Eric Mangini is enjoying his second act as a broadcaster with ESPN, and the truth is he should. He brings intellect and thoughtfulness to his analysis, and while he's never going to replace Rex Ryan in the personality department, he's much more open on television than the tight-lipped coach we saw all too often in Cleveland and New York with the Jets.
"One of the reasons I am enjoying this job is you get a chance to look at the league in a much bigger scope," Mangini told SI.com on Sunday. "When you are coaching, you look at things from your team, the team you are playing, and you also pay attention to your division. In this job, you look at all the teams and you get to see all the different decisions. You get to see how teams are built, how teams evolve and how strategies evolve.
"From an analysis perspective, I like the ability to explain what happened. I think a lot of times, instead of saying this is who you should be mad at or this is the person at fault, I can say this is what the decision was, and whether you agree with it or not is your decision to make. I want to give you that information to allow you to make that decision."
Like many of the studio analysts at ESPN, Mangini appears on multiple platforms. He gets his schedule at the beginning of each month and stays in Bristol, Conn., on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. He'll appear on some combination of NFL Live, SportsCenter, SportsNation and First Take, depending on the news of the day, as well as do spots on ESPN Radio. He'll then fly to his home in Cleveland on Wednesday and spend time watching film, analyzing future storylines and attending to his three young sons with his wife, Julie.
"I think Eric Mangini has been one of the biggest surprises in my 20 years at ESPN," said Seth Markman, who oversees ESPN's NFL studio shows. "When we hired him, it was a project. We were like, 'Let's just take a chance on him.' He was a head coach and it was a small deal and [if] we get tight-lipped Eric Mangini like we saw as a coach, then we move on. But I think he has been great on TV and I have had many viewers come to me and say, 'I didn't really want to like him but I do.' "
Mangini has a multiple-year contract with ESPN, so if he stays out of coaching in 2013, he'll be back with the network. But he's a young man in the coaching profession (he's just 41) and it's reasonable to assume he'll one day want to get back on the sidelines. Mangini said he's unsure how long he wants to remain in broadcasting, but he noted that it has given him an opportunity to do things with his children that he could never do as a coach.
"There have been times this year where I thought broadcasting is something I could do longterm and there have been times I thought 'God, I'd love to be coaching right now,' " Mangini said. "I wish I could give you specifics, but I don't think I have totally answered that question myself. I would be interested in going back to coaching if it was the right spot, the right people and a place that I believed in. But it's not an easy decision. It's a massive commitment."
If he stays in broadcasting, Mangini has a chance to be good. He's already performed the not-so-small miracle of not coming off as annoying while appearing on First Take.
2. Markman says Bart Scott's frosty relationship with the Jets' press corps would not prevent ESPN from hiring the linebacker for a post-playing career in broadcasting. "The New York media seems to have a little bit of an adversarial relationship with Bart Scott," Markman said. "I've met Bart Scott several times. I think he's great. Really outspoken. A fun guy. I understand he is making it harder for those guys and I don't like that. I'm a part of the media and if I were advising him, I would advise him to do differently. But I think if he came in my office after he retired and I asked the 10 to 12 questions I usually ask guys [who want to be analysts] and his answers were unbelievable, I would ultimately hire him."
2a. Speaking of dealing with the New York media, I asked Mangini for the advice he'd give an NFL coach working in such a big market.
"The biggest mistake that I made in going to New York was I did not speak enough in my own voice," Mangini said. "I had very strong figures in my coaching life between Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick, and I thought it was a little egotistical for me to say, 'Well, they did it this way and won multiple Super Bowls and I am going to do it my way and it's better?' What I learned was you can take all the things you like but still make sure you do things in your own voice. That was a tough lesson to learn.
"There is no manual for being a head coach. When I went to New York, I had done one press conference in my career. I was a defensive coordinator in New England and it came in August with six people in the room. That was my media exposure outside of controlled one-on-one. Then I went to New York and there were hundreds of people there, 25 cameras, and you default back to what you learned and what you watched. But you can't do that.
"But here's what I like about Rex Ryan. Rex is Rex. In a lot of ways when he took over for me, people celebrated that. I don't agree with people who are now mad at him for being who he is. He is who is he is. It's authentic and I respect that. When you agree or disagree with it, you should not be mad at him for being who he is."
3. Sports Business Journal's ace ratings editor Austin Karp noted last week that many of the Sunday NFL pregame shows are down from last year. Fox NFL Sunday is averaging 4.5 million viewers (down 15 percent) and ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown is averaging 2.1 million viewers (down from 2.3 million in 2011). CBS's The NFL Today had averaged 3.3 million viewers through the week of Nov. 11. That's down from its final four-million-viewer average at the end of last year. But there's a caveat for Fox and CBS: Nielsen no longer counts the studio time after the conclusion of the first afternoon window as part of the rating for the Fox NFL Sunday and The NFL Today. That explains some of the drop.
An NFL Network spokesperson told SI.com on Sunday that its NFL Game Day Mornings was averaging 470,000 viewers, up five percent (447,000) over last year. (Worth noting is that the network is in six million more homes this year than 2011.)
Has the NFL Network cut into the old-school pregame ratings shows? Definitely. Social media? I'm not sure people are opting for Twitter over the pregame show, given most sports fans are multiple-screen watchers. But I'd argue there's a staleness to many of the segments the old-school shows use, whether it's the hackneyed pick segments to the over-the-top, guys-will-be-guys laughter for every half-baked joke. No one is saying eliminate fun, but let's stop pretending Shannon Sharpe and Jimmie Johnson are Louis C.K. That's why ESPN2's Fantasy Football Now has found an audience. It's service-oriented and smart.
Karp reports that NBC's Football Night in America, a pregame show that airs after Sunday-afternoon competition, is averaging 7.6 million viewers, down 15 percent from last year. This decline is an easy one to dissect: The late-window national games are running later than in recent years on CBS and Fox.
3a. On the subject of NFL pregame shows: ESPN's Countdown remains the best in class for feature profiles. It had an excellent opener on Sunday (produced by content associate Terrell Bouza) that featured the audio of Gregg Williams, then the Saints' defensive coordinator, making references to inflicting physical punishment upon several Niners in a postseason game the next day. (The feature was timed to the Saints-49ers meeting.) It was provocative and smart video, and brought viewers into the story before ESPN shifted to reporter Ed Werder, who was assigned to the game.
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In a marathon, runners should know the weather conditions they are going to deal with. Getting this information is easier nowadays with Internet. For this reason, I advice you to check first of all any website in order to know the weather forecast on 22 January 2012.
Besides, we can not forget that
Keeping this in mind, we must be cautious and prepare in advance a good hydration for the marathon.
My advice is that the morning of the competition, just after getting up, we always keep a bottle of water within reach, and take small sips every 5-10 min. A trick to know that we are well hydrated is that the urine must be clear. Regarding what to drink, I advice you to add a pill of potassium in a jar with 200 millilitres of water, and drink it a couple of hours before the competition. This will help you a great deal in hot and humid days. Only one jar with potassium. Let the rest be water or an isotonic drink.
And during the competition, as you know, elite athletes put their own bottles, with any content they decide, on spots every
However, popular athletes don't have this problem. Therefore, the idea is to drink the water provided by the organization every
Moreover, you have several options. You can take two gels during the marathon, if you don't have anybody to provide you with. Those gels, containing mainly carbohydrates, will help you replenish the energy that you will need in the last third of the race, after you have exhausted all the carbohydrates reserves taken through the meals, especially the night before.
You can also turn to some friend who can give you those gels along the course. The right moment is at kilometres 20 and 30.
If you are used to isotonic drinks, it is advisable to take them every
I don's want to finish this first tip without saying that it is not good either to drink too much water. The body is wise and already in the training runs it will gradually get used to that special marathon day. I would also like to mention that certain elite athletes, running marathons in hot humid days, have drunk too much before the competition, and this overhydration has provoked their stomach to go through difficult moments.


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Eris is designed to simplify client development (and promote code reuse) by providing a common system to deal with the back-end Atlas tasks. Notably, Eris encapsulates most of the work in getting Atlas entities available on your client, logging into a server, and managing updates from the server. Once the entities are made available locally, Eris also manages updating them as required. Thus it can be considered as a session layer above Atlas, providing persistent (for an entire gaming session) objects as opposed to transient Atlas ones. It handles the client-side implementation of the meta-server protocol, and querying game servers; out-of-game (OOG) operations (via the Lobby and Rooms), and most important in-game (IG) operations such as entity creation, movement and updates.
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Eris 1.3.11 Released - 26/6/2006
Eris 1.3.11 is now out. This release adds support for tasks, including prediction of task progress on the client. The support for logging out of accounts has been overhauled, and the ability to cleanly deactivate a character was added. As a result, a complete sequence of login, character activation, deactivation and logout now works reliably in clients. In additions to these items, many smaller improvements and bug fixed have been made, in particular related to handling of Atlas exceptions.
Eris 1.3.10 Released - 4/1/2006
Eris 1.3.10 is now out. Major changes are fixes for bugs encountered during the release of Sear 0.6.0, improvements in how Eris complies with the Atlas spec, and the addition of various smaller features. Notably, calendar data on the world can now be retrieved and decoded by the Calendar object, to allow a client to present date and time to the user. A weak-pointer to instances of Eris::Entity was added, which clients can use to simplify tracking an Entity in their code. Finally, the test harness was improved, and many more test cases added.
Eris 1.3.9 Released - 25/10/2005
Eris 1.3.9 is now out, support for limiting the rate at which data is requested from the server based on the connection speed. This fixes many problems connecting to servers on slow or assymmetric links. Support for processing arbitrary data on Move operations was added, and the type-handling system simplified considerably.
Eris 1.3.8 Released - 09/10/2005
Eris 1.3.8 has been released, with various bugs fixed, and updates to remain compatible with the latest Atlas development series. Al Riddoch has also improved the Atlas usage, removing some inconsistency in the types of operation that are sent. The API for managing Avatars has been extended, and their lifetime made more explicit.
Eris 1.3.7 Released - 28/06/2005
Eris 1.3.7 has been released, with many bugs discovered at LinuxTag 2005 fixed. This release also includes updates to the unit-test harness, which now uses Unix pipes instead of socket-pairs for out-of-band control.
Hagen has further improved the output of the metaQuery tool, to display server uptime in a human-meaningful way, and this version should be visible here soon.
Eris 1.3.6 Released - 12/06/2005
Eris 1.3.6 has been released, with fixes for many bugs and API issues relating to error handling, setting entity attributes, and processing the world time from the server. Various minor improvements to the meta-server code have taken place, including revised HTML / XML output from the metaquery tool, thanks to Hagen.
The new and improved metaquery output is visible on the 'Active Servers' section of the site.
Eris 1.3.5 Released - 08/05/2005
Eris 1.3.5 has been released, with support for accelerations on entities, to enable accurate motion prediction of balistic movement. Many bugs identified by client authors were fixed, as well as issues identified by Valgrind. Additionally, the test suite was extended to cover more of the API.
Eris 1.3.4 Released - 18/4/2005
The next development version was released today; In this release, various API improvements have taken place - the current server can be queried for it's information easily, the lifetime of Eris::Connection has been made explicit, and other minor changes made.
Internally, some of the complex router logic has been replaced with a new Responder system which handles most operations that naturally fit a request / response idiom. The test cases have been extended, and should now work reliably on all platforms, and many bugs have been fixed.
Eris 1.3.3 Released - 27/1/2005
Eris 1.3.3 has been released, to coincide with the release of Ember. Minor API changes have taken place since the previous release, related to how Eris::Connection reports time-outs (they are now handled by the existing Failure signal). Various crashes related to time-outs and the meta-server query code have been resolved, and some issues related to Eris::Poll and inheritance of SigC++ types have been fixed.
Eris 1.2.2 Released - 12/1/2005
Eris 1.2.2 has been released. This is a bug fix release, which resolves some introduced by supporting libSigC++ 2.0, and some packaging updates by Al Riddoch.
Eris 1.3.2 Released - 8/1/2005
This is second unstable release of the current development work that will become Eris 1.4. A large number of bugs have been fixed since the previous release, in all areas of the code. The API has evolved slightly, so that more failures can be reported to the client application (for example, failure to create a character).
More methods have been made virtual, at the suggestion of client-developers, and the arguments to many signals had been reduced and simplified, since there was a great deal of redundancy previously.
While the API is settling down, it is still likely to change before the stable release, and should not be considered frozen. However, any changes should be incremental and localised.
Eris 1.2.1 Released - 9/11/2004
Eris 1.2.1 has been uploaded to the FTP sites - the only significant change in this release is support for libSigC 2.0 (in addition to libSigC 1.2), which permits clients to use other libraries that might require the newever version of libSigC. The choice of SigC version is made when running ./configure, and all libraries linked into an application must use the same SigC version.
Unstable Preview of Eris 1.4 Released - 19/10/2004
To aid client developers in migrating to the new Eris 1.4 API, I've uploaded a preview release, labelled as version 1.3.1, to the FTP site. This is a 90% complete preview of the final API, but with some known issues. All feedback on this release is welcomed, especially API changes or enhancements, since these cannot be made once a stable release takes place. Bug reports and patches are also appreciated.
Changes in this release include some renaming of classes to better match their roles and function, a redesign of the internal routing code to be many times more efficent, an overhaul of the Connection code to correctly handle disconnects and reconnects, and improved metaserver logic. For more detailed information, see the CHANGES-1.4 file in the source package.
LinuxTag Release - 19/05/2004
In anticipation of demoing software at LinuxTag (at the end of June), we've been working to ensure clients and the libraries they need are easily downloadable, so Eris has recieved some fine tuning and API tweaks. The most notable change is that World now emits a GotTime signal which can be used to drive time-of-day updates in clients. The metaserver API has been made compatible with the development branch of Eris (and also more efficent), and a nasty bug in the Poll code has been fixed. Various minor configuration issues have been resolved too.
Future Eris Development
In addition to the release mentioned above, a huge amount of work has been done on the next major version of Eris, which has been overhauled to use the Atlas-C++ 0.6 API, and to be far more efficent internally, with a cleaner, simpler structure, less reliance on templates and far less copying of data. The ownership semantics have also been changed, to handle different scenarios, such as multiple Avatars, multiple Connections and multiple worlds better. Expect further development on Eris once LinuxTag is out the way.
New release! - 5/02/2004
A new unstable version of Eris has been released, with a couple of big changes, and some minor bug fixes. Perhaps most importantly, the most current release of Atlas-C++ transitional is required, paving the way for migration to Atlas-C++ 0.6 in the near future. Ron Steinke has done lots of work on the Avatar class exposing commonly used operations with simple methods, and has also updated the coordinate space handling logic of Entities. If that wasn't enough, he also migrated the time-handling classes to use those in WFMath. As a result of this work, the most recent release of WFMath is also required. Eris' include files have been cleaned up and simplifed by Al Riddoch,
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"So long as Iran continues to pursue a nuclear program in defiance of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.S. will target those involved in Iran's illicit enrichment activities," the Treasury Department said in a statement. "The entire world has made it clear that these activities are unacceptable and only serve to increase Iran's isolation."
The new penalties apply to the procurement arms of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which has been subject to U.S. sanctions since 2005, and the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company, which was first sanctioned in 2011, along with top executives.


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It is the nature of sports and our passion for them that the novelty of newfound success only lasts so long and is eventually replaced with a bittersweet mixture of pride and regret.
So it will be as Orioles fans tune in to the World Series, which begins Wednesday night in San Francisco, and watch the Giants play the Detroit Tigers for a championship trophy that wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye around here eight months ago.
Call it the theory of sports relativity. The Orioles were expected to reside near the bottom of the American League East standings again in 2012. They beat those long odds and made it all the way to the second playoff round. They did it in a magical and entertaining way that made it impossible to view the season as anything but an unqualified success.
And yet, you can't help thinking that if Adam Jones had delivered just one more big hit or if that Nate McLouth fly ball off C.C. Sabathia had gotten just a little more of the foul pole the Orioles might still be making magic and we'd be dressing up the downtown area for the arrival of the Fall Classic this weekend.
What a compelling national story it would have been. What an opportunity to rub 14 years of tarnish off the Orioles franchise in front of the whole country.
There's one thing you all know for sure: The Orioles definitely would have given a better account of themselves against the Tigers than did the Yankees, who looked old and tired in that resounding four-game sweep in the American League Championship Series.
Who knows what would have happened if the Orioles had gotten there, but they played the Tigers to a regular season draw (3-3), and they forced Tigers ace Justin Verlander to throw 116 pitches in six innings in a no-decision the last time he faced them.
Of course, they probably wouldn't have gotten through that best-of-seven series swinging the bat the way they did against the Yankees, but you have to figure that they would have pumped up the offensive volume at some point.
It is entirely normal to look back on the past few weeks and see the moments when a slightly better outcome could have sparked a chain of events that might have led farther down the postseason turnpike.
It's normal — at some point — to begin judging the team in its current context rather than through a prism of low expectations, so it's okay to question whether the Orioles had the right approach at the plate against the Yankees pitching staff.
It's okay to think it was a great season, but that it could have been greater — because it could have been greater.
Manager Buck Showalter said when he first got here that one of his major goals would be to raise expectations. That would be the key to reversing a long slide in attendance at Camden Yards and making the team more attractive to its disillusioned fan base and to free agent players who were loathe to consider playing in Baltimore.
Don't expect the Orioles to hang a "Mission Accomplished" banner on the B&O Warehouse any time soon, but Showalter and Dan Duquette have engineered a turnaround so dramatic that it isn't crazy to envision the Orioles back in the hunt for baseball's biggest prize next season.
Why not, indeed. The Orioles knocked the big-swinging Rangers out of the playoffs after Texas spent much of the season considered the most powerful team in the American League. They took the $200 million Yankees all the way to Game 5 of the Division Series before Sabathia closed the door on their terrific season. They outlasted the Tampa Bay Rays to win a wild-card playoff berth and finished the regular season four games better than the Tigers and five games better than the high-priced Los Angeles Angels.
In other words, they were as good as anybody, and — with a couple more winks from the baseball gods — they might be getting ready to step onto baseball's biggest stage.
If that makes you a bit wistful when the World Series begins Wednesday night, you're not alone.
Read more from columnist Peter Schmuck on his blog, "The Schmuck Stops Here" at baltimoresun.com/schmuckblog and listen when he co-hosts "The Week in Review" at noon Fridays on WBAL (1090 AM) and at wbal.com.Orioles Insider | Live scores | Photos | Baseball app


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I like the Amazon/Woot marriage. Amazon needed an entry into the rapidly evolving private sales web site business and this deal gives them that "in." Likewise, Woot now has the wherewithal to really develop its business model backed by the assets of the world's biggest online retailer. Amazon studies business opportunities and then moves with judicious speed to get in on the action. It would have taken Amazon years to build a truly successfully private sale or daily deal site.
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An interactive electronic story and activity book about the amazing Brain, for kids ages 7-11.
There is a crisis in science education in the U.S. We need to get more kids excited by science. We started Kizoom to do just that.
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- inspire kids by presenting the most exciting scientific subject of our time: The Brain!
- make science fun and accessible using relatable characters and cool technology.
- educate the next generation about their own Brains, promoting life-long learning and creativity.
Our Project
The Adventures of Ned the Neuron is an electronic storybook (App), packed with integrated educational content and interactions that explores the science of the Brain. It is whimsical. It is challenging. It is fun. It is real science.
Here are the details:
- 34 pages of full color story illustrated by Andy Warner
- Read to Me function with voiceover and soundtrack
- Interactive educational diagrams
- Three mini-games
- Over 30 neuroscience concepts introduced
- For Apple and Android tablets
Who Is Ned?
Ned is a cartwheel-loving, action-oriented young neuron training to work in the motor cortex of the Brain. What is a neuron? Neurons are the cells that make up your Brain! Ned came into this world five years ago as a stuffed toy designed as an outreach tool. We have since developed a world of characters and stories around him and now we want to bring Ned and his friends out into the world!
Our Goal
Achieving our funding goal will allow us to meet production costs for The Adventures of Ned the Neuron, such as original art and illustrations, voiceover recordings, and marketing, as well as providing a solid base for building out our future products, including the production of a hardcopy version of the book.
Our long-term objective is to create an ecosystem of educational books, games and activities that centers around Ned the Neuron and friends and teaches about the nervous system. We need to get this first project off the ground to reach this goal.
About Us
Erica Warp is a Neuroscientist on a mission. A mission to educate and entertain kids of all ages. Erica is a passionate learner and wants to share that passion with others. She teaches, she creates, she looks at small things under microscopes.
Jessica Voytek is not afraid to dig into things and see how they tick. She has been coding since she was barely able to get a legal drink. Where others might turn away she dares to go.
Together Erica and Jessica make the dynamic duo behind Kizoom.
You can learn more about Kizoom on our website, or download a Press Pack here.
We are very thankful to anyone who can support our project and we hope you are looking forward to the rewards we have planned. For the visually inclined, here are the rewards in picture form.
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When the funding period is over, we will contact you for more information (e.g. do you want the iPad or the PDF version of the book? Do you want a t-shirt or a totebag?). So hang tight - you have a bit of time to buy that iPad or decide what neuroscience apparel will work best with your wardrobe :-)
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Virginia enters with a record of 16-3, and on a five-game winning streak. They are making their 12th consecutive NCAA tournament appearance.
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West Ham assistant manager Neil McDonald has set up a series of coaching courses aimed at part-time football managers and coaches
West Ham assistant boss Neil McDonald will be imparting some of his wisdom with a special coaching course aimed at part-time football managers and coaches.
The Hammers number two, who holds a UEFA Pro Licence, is launching a series of evening sessions at West Ham's Chadwell Heath training ground.
The only qualification for attending is that you curently manage or coach a recognised football team at any level, or you are a player aspiring to be a coach.
The first three Thursday dates for the sessions are already pencilled in as July 19, August 2 and August 16.
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The labor market is generally teeming with available talent, yet skilled finance and accounting employees are not necessarily any easier to find. Indeed, the accounting profession shed less than 2% of its jobs between September 2008 and September 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and CFOs who have recently hired say salary levels remain high. Perhaps more worrisome, Ajilon Finance recently surveyed more than 450 accountants and found that 23% plan to look for a new job when the economy improves.
That means that as corporate finance departments become leaner than ever, it's high time for finance executives to focus on winning the loyalty of their remaining staffers now and into the recovery, say experts. "At this stage, when most companies have had a restructuring or layoffs, you're going to find there are a lot of skeleton crews in corporate finance," says Jonathan Mazzocchi, general manager of the accounting and finance division at staffing firm Winter, Wyman & Co. "If you lose anyone [going forward], it will probably be a key player or [he or she] would be gone already."
And losing a finance staffer to a competitor means not only a business disruption but an economic hit, considering that staff-replacement costs are generally 120% to 130% of the salary of the person who leaves.
So what are some of the best ways to retain finance staff when budgets are tight? While it is tempting to look for cheap and quick gratification in the form of springing for the occasional pizza or offering spot rewards, many experts say the most effective retention tools don't need to cost anything at all — and could even save money. "The biggest driver of satisfaction is not free bagels, and not even your compensation, but providing more opportunities for people to do what they do best," says Chris Rice, CEO of human-resources consulting firm BlessingWhite.
When Rice's company surveyed some 7,500 employees around the world last year, including 270 U.S. finance employees, it found that perks didn't even make the top eight factors employees rated as key to their satisfaction. Instead, employees typically want more challenging work (and more say in how it's done), along with a good relationship with their manager. "You can be working for a company that's terrible in many regards, but if you have a great relationship with your manager, that could mitigate a lot of the problems," says Rice.
With that in mind, here are three ideas to consider as you seek to keep your best and brightest:
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This year Grant Barber, finance chief Hughes Satellite, rotated three of his direct reports into new roles within finance specifically for retention purposes. "I know they are being recruited," he says. "My goal is to have people look inside and say, 'When I compare my future inside Hughes with what I see outside, this looks much better.'"


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Many palladium catalyzed reactions reportedly enjoy dramatic acceleration when heated by microwaves rather than oil baths, even under otherwise identical temperatures and reaction conditions. The origin of this improvement in homogeneous systems is not understood, and this project aims to locate the source of these effects in the kinetics of these reactions. Our work this year focused on two reactions – a Buchwald-Hartwig coupling we previously reported to be accelerated by microwave heating (eq 1) and a Sonogashira coupling reported, in two independent literature reports, to require widely different reaction times under microwave and conventional conditions (eq 2). We have sought to collect kinetic data for each of these reactions, under each set of conditions, to see how the impact of the microwave varies across a range of temperatures, solvents, catalyst loadings, and other reaction conditions. We hope to establish whether the microwave somehow increases reaction rates, improves catalyst lifetimes, shortens induction times, or otherwise modifies reaction progress.
Although the Buchwald Harwig reaction illustrated in eq 1 suffers from a degree of irreproducibility depending on catalyst and solvent batches, studies of parallel reactions have repeatedly confirmed there to be significant and consistent differences between microwave and conventionally heated reactions. Conversion occurs primarily at very early reaction times with both heating methods, proceeding at roughly twice the early rate in the microwave (Figure 1). (Progress thereafter is sufficiently slow that the conventional heating must be continued for much longer, effectively exaggerating the degree of the microwave's effect.) This suggested that the duration of this initial burst of reactivity, perhaps correlating to the lifetime of the most effective catalyst generated, might be the key difference between the two reaction conditions. This behavior was not appreciably changed by moves to lower or higher temperatures. When these reactions were repeated with much higher catalyst loadings, however, the differences between microwave and conventional heating were dramatically reduced – both reactions were complete within 10 minutes under these conditions, and the microwave rate was only very slightly faster. This suggests that the microwave may minimize a catalyst decomposition pathway that becomes less significant at higher loadings.
The Sonogashira reaction illustrated in eq 2 was reported to proceed 20 times as fast and in higher yield when heated in the microwave. In our hands, however, we see no dramatic difference between couplings conducted using microwave and oil-bath heating, with both methods generally yielding results similar to the shorter reaction times reported for microwave heating (Figure 2). Although the reaction is moderately sensitive to catalyst batch and reagent purity, it seems that the more likely explanation for the prior report of microwave acceleration is simply that the oil bath reaction was not monitored as frequently. In essence, the difference in reports reflects the relative patience of the researchers involved, rather than an intrinsic difference in microwave heating. We are currently beginning to explore a Suzuki coupling and a copper free Sonogashira coupling via comparisons similar to those described above.